The sociology of art by Jean Duvignaud(
Book
)70
editions published
between
1967
and
1988
in
5
languages
and held by
1,003 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide

Change at Shebika: report from a North African village by Jean Duvignaud(
Book
)40
editions published
between
1968
and
1978
in
3
languages
and held by
855 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
This is at once an intimate portrait of a Tunisian desert village, an evaluation of its potential and prospects for change,
an analysis of the evolving relationship between researchers (including some citified Tunisian students) and researched, and
an argument for Third World "social independence" (preserving the authenticity of villages like Shebika by utilizing their
own capacity for transformation). Jean Duvignaud, a French leftist intellectual teaching sociology at the University of Tunis
during the five years of this study, was attracted by Shebika's unconscious socialism--its ancient traditions and habits of
communal life--as antidote to the aridity and fragmentation of the capitalist industrial societies. His enthusiasm for Shebika's
collectivism led the villagers to "a new perception of their own values" and a climactic confrontation in "the incident of
the quarry" with the paternalistic and insensitive regional Governorate. The portrayal of the village and villagers is not
on the evocative order of Children of Sanchez; these subjects seem speech-shy and tend even when pressed to attribute all
happenings to "God's will." But as an interpretive, consciously crafted study it offers much to consider re Shebika's specific
situation and the social and psychological problems of development in new states